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whacking

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adverb

whacking

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verb

present participle of whack
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whacking
Adjective
  • She’s accompanied by Cosmo, a robot with a giant cartoon head and the soulful eyes of someone—or something—that might be more than just a machine.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The surviving robots, meanwhile, got sent to a giant prison colony somewhere in the deserts of the American Southwest.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • His run at Gonzaga was extremely memorable and had NBA teams incredibly excited for his potential.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Gene Kloss received national and international recognition in her lifetime, extremely rare for a midcentury female artist.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women as well as attempting to murder seven others.
    Lorenzino Estrada, Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The timing was awkward — as Bashar and his gang were murdering unarmed protesters en masse.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Photo : Miroslav Cik A huge terrace wraps around the house, providing lots of space for alfresco dining and relaxing.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Running over a year off-Broadway has been a dream come true, and has set us up for huge success nationwide.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Some knobby with new growth, some short or gigantic, some suffering or shrunken, some reaching over paths and roads.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 5 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • The combo of that large, efficient head; the dampening factor of the wood handle; and a nice texture at the base of the grip just felt so damned good, strike after strike.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Still, Moore is pretty damned great — this could almost be her Fly.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • In 2011, Meester, who was at the height of her Gossip Girl fame, attended the event as a presenter, hitting the stage Garrett Hedlund to give out an award.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Players continue hitting the cue ball off other balls to try and get their balls into pockets until only the eight ball remains.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The decision to remove the enormous mural near the White House comes after a U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025
  • There are also the now-traditional summer preseason schedules of European clubs who spend a few weeks in America playing before enormous crowds before kicking off their new seasons back home.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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“Whacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whacking. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.

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